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August 2, 2006
Caroline Jones Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg’s Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Senses Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 544 pp.; 23 color ills.; 127 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (0226409511)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2006.80

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The last word on the history of the New York School is far from having been written. Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg’s Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Senses announces a new chapter in the study of mid-century art and criticism by attempting to conclude one. At the end of her preface, Caroline Jones reveals, “More than anything else I’ve written, this book exists to end its subject—to construe the Greenberg effect, in order to be...